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Episode 145 - Vibe Coding and then what?

Where is this all going?

November 23, 2025 at 10:37 AM

David "Unicorn" S

@zenpath.bsky.social

Sorry, did I mention about MCP's being expensive?

Lots of people (well, one!) have been asking me about this :)

November 16, 2025 at 6:16 AM

David "Unicorn" S

@zenpath.bsky.social

Episode 144 - MCPs using all of those tokens!!

... and you thought it was all free? :)

November 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM

David "Unicorn" S

@zenpath.bsky.social

Episode 143 - Weekend Ramble #6

Wanna waste 30 minutes of your life? well, if so, you have come to the right place :)

October 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM

David "Unicorn" S

@zenpath.bsky.social

Episode 142 - Agents Agents MCP and A2A

"An agent, an agent, my kingdom for an agent"

October 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM

David "Unicorn" S

@zenpath.bsky.social

Episode 141 - JetBrains free DataGrip

"Get a grip people!"

October 3, 2025 at 7:27 AM

David "Unicorn" S

@zenpath.bsky.social

Episode 140 - LLMs Vectors Search and Quantization Explained

Sure, AI helped explained this, but the explanation is pretty cool!

Is Windows Sandbox ACTUALLY Useful?

August 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM

David "Unicorn" S

@zenpath.bsky.social

youtu.be/93ORIRVLBnI?...

August 17, 2025 at 10:18 AM

David "Unicorn" S

@zenpath.bsky.social

Episode 139 - RAG is Expensive but is it really

Well, in unicorns dollars, it is REALLY expensive :)

August 3, 2025 at 6:10 AM

David "Unicorn" S

@zenpath.bsky.social

Episode 138 - UX Pilot UI Design with AI

Do you need a real human designer anymore? Well, I think yes, but again AI can be a useful augmentation tool :)

July 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM

David "Unicorn" S

@zenpath.bsky.social

Episode 137 - Warmwind OS AI Operating System

Genuinely exciting about this one!

Vibe Coding vs Context Engineering!

July 14, 2025 at 7:34 AM

David "Unicorn" S

@zenpath.bsky.social

youtu.be/pmyWusaA9s0?...

July 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM

David "Unicorn" S

@zenpath.bsky.social

Episode 136 - Using AI to Generate Test Data

Data is everything right?

Is STRING the new n8n killer? I had a look to see how complicated these platforms are!

July 11, 2025 at 5:15 AM

David "Unicorn" S

@zenpath.bsky.social

youtu.be/iaKHxgREwHk

July 5, 2025 at 10:56 AM

David "Unicorn" S

@zenpath.bsky.social

Episode 135 - Vibe Coding is Dead Long Live Context Engineering!

To vibe code or not vibe code, that is the question!

July 4, 2025 at 5:51 AM

David "Unicorn" S

@zenpath.bsky.social

Episode 134 - VSCode AI Toolkit

Not just for developers! Play around with different models both online and locally!

June 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM

David "Unicorn" S

@zenpath.bsky.social

Episode 133 - Microsoft AI Extensions MCPs and Azure AI Foundry Local

Well, that's a lot of words! What the heck does it all mean?

June 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM

David "Unicorn" S

@zenpath.bsky.social

Episode 132 - AI Agent Automations with n8n

Everyone gets an agent! (as long as it is not called "Smith")

June 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM

David "Unicorn" S

@zenpath.bsky.social

Episode 131 - Tick Tick: The endless search for the perfect ToDo app

Oh not another one!

June 5, 2025 at 5:54 AM

David "Unicorn" S

@zenpath.bsky.social

Episode 130 - AI Code Custom Instructions

VS Code, Windsurf, Cursor AI etc.

June 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM

David "Unicorn" S

@zenpath.bsky.social

Episode 129 - Weekend Ramble #5 More AI

You can at least play this and use it to fall asleep?

May 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM

David "Unicorn" S

@zenpath.bsky.social

Episode 128 - Into the Void... local AI coding with local LLMs for real this time!

Oh yes, if I am wrong then I will try to make things right :)

May 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM

David "Unicorn" S

@zenpath.bsky.social

youtu.be/yvQusjhXpU8

MCP the Docker way

May 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM

David "Unicorn" S

@zenpath.bsky.social

Episode 127 - Cross Platform Code Editing

Yep, AI does indeed make an appearance :)

Coding with Open AI Codex CLI

April 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM

David "Unicorn" S

@zenpath.bsky.social

.. and more... now with moving pictures!

youtu.be/GSXEGbEqmxs